Greg Ichshenko

Calgary SEO expert and digital marketing specialist,
developing advertising strategies for businesses of all sizes

(403) 308-5949

greg@to-the-top.ca
1509 14 Ave SW, Calgary,
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    How to Refresh Content Without Hurting SEO Rankings

    Update the stale numbers. Add a section on whatever changed since you published. Fix the dead links. Push a new date to the top of the post.

    That is the standard refresh advice and there is nothing wrong with it. It just leaves out where the danger actually sits.

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    How to Do SEO on Webflow

    Set the page title. Write the description under it. Then open the live page and find neither one there.

    Nothing broke. Your fields are fine. Webflow simply has not put them anywhere yet.

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    How Many SEO Clients Do You Manage?

    No correct number exists. Anybody handing you one is describing their own arrangement rather than a standard.

    There is a version of this question asked by people running agencies. How many can one person carry, and what breaks first. That one belongs to the page about scaling, so it stays over there.

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    How to Master Google PPC Automation

    Nobody switches on Google PPC automation. It arrives switched on.

    Most guides skip that part. They walk you through picking a Smart Bidding strategy as though the account were a blank machine waiting for instructions.

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    How to Create an Effective SEO Strategy in 2024

    That year is finished. Which turns out to be the useful part.

    An SEO strategy written in 2024 has now had two full years to prove itself. Long enough for pages to index. Enough time for them to climb. Some stalled. Others sit exactly where they started. So it can finally be graded.

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    How Does Google Ads Provide Control Over Your Advertising?

    Control is the question we get most from businesses thinking about Google Ads. Not clicks, not cost, not competition. Control. Does an advertiser decide what happens, or does Google?

    More than most expect. Spend caps are hard limits. Keywords are chosen by the advertiser. Your ad copy is written by your team. Pausing your ads takes seconds. There is no lock-in, no contract, no minimum spend requirement.

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    How to Tie SEO and Content Marketing to Revenue Goals

    A revenue number sits on the whiteboard. Six hundred thousand next year. Beside it hangs a content calendar with fourteen article titles waiting on a writer.

    Nobody in the room can draw a line between those two things. That is the normal state of affairs, not a discipline problem. The line does get drawn eventually. Almost always in the wrong direction.

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    How to Combine SEO and CRO for Faster Growth

    Two people look at the same page and reach opposite conclusions. One wants the quote form moved to the top. The other wants the nine hundred words that form currently sits under. Both can point at a number proving they are right.

    Neither of them is wrong. They are measuring different visitors.

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    Do Draft and Unpublished WordPress Posts Affect Your SEO?

    Sixty-three drafts. That was the count in one Calgary client’s WordPress dashboard. Two years of half-finished posts sitting there. The owner was sure the pile was quietly dragging the whole site down.

    It was not. Google never saw a single one of them.

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    Does Hidden Content Affect SEO?

    The Short Answer Arrives in Two Halves

    Yes. Rarely in the direction that brought you here.

    Text hidden to fool a search engine is a spam problem. That half is settled, and it has been settled for twenty years. White words on a white background. A block shoved off the left edge of the screen. Google names that behaviour plainly in its spam policies. Other pages here cover the whole family.

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